ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a hearing to outstanding voices of glasnost in 1989, with the emphasis on the movement toward a new post-Communist national Russia. It focuses on issues of the past, the present and a future Russian polity. On all these issues Russian nationalist authors, the patriots, differ markedly not only from the paniots, but also the so called “liberals,” also known as the “superintendents of perestroika.” Galina Litvinova’s article on the plight of the Russians, which appeared in May 1989 in the Russite magazine Nash sovremennik was an important step in public recognition of the Russian problem as one of the most serious problems facing the Gorbachev regime. In a narrower sense, Russian national thinking means thinking along the lines of Russian non-Marxist and pre-Communist ideas which have managed, often in a mangled, unattractive, and “Sovietized” form, to survive Marxist-Leninist domination.
